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You sound like a badass.

Very inspiring, thank-you.

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I have Om Swami's book regarding yoga and mediation techniques, and also the book"Mastering Buddha" (I'm using shortened names as I do not want to leak any copyright information). I'm experiencing Kundalini symptoms, which is explicitly addressed in "Mastering the buddha", yet it also states that a prerequisite is having an established practice. At the height of my practice, which I slowed down recently due to inflamed Kundalini symptoms, I was doing Shambhavi Mahamudra kriya for about half an hour, and self-inquiry for one hour. Does this count as an established practice? I was always really shit at self-inquiry so I don't know if it counts. -- I was thinking perhaps I could practice Om Swami's basic focus techniques before getting fully into intensive meditation. But then again I am experiencing Kundalini quite preavlently, and the theory in "Mastering Buddha" is quite in-depth so maybe I should just go for it. What do ya'll think?

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Thankyou so much for your reply - this has been so helpful!!

My question is, do I have to care about intense energy welling up, or can I just let it consume me. Tara Wells says in her book 'enlightened through the path of kundalini', that energy overload means slowing down energy practises. Sasdghuru also says that kundalini can ruin the whole system, and must be risen under special guidance. So could this perhaps be detrimenting my system by continuing?

I was initiated into shambhavi mahamudra kriya yoga, I want to continue, there was a time were I saw great benefits. My body felt delicious, great mood, and life was more vivid. But nowadays my kundalini symptoms flare up when I sit in the asana, I feel energy rising into my brain. The heart on the left and right heat up, tremble, and once it even felt like it burnt me a little bit. Interestingly it's only when I do a short loving kindness meditation and chant at the beginning of the practice that this flare up happens, throughout the actual kriya everything feels okay, it's just a bit frightening. I don't really want to part with it, but if it is detrimenting me then perhaps I should look for other practices.

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Thank you so much for this topic @Nahm, I always love what you share <3 How do you trust that what you write down is authentic? Like if someone tells me about something, and that resonates with me, then can I want that? How can I want something if I haven't experienced it? Haha, what am I wanting? I guess dreaming or visioning is like creating personal principles. What do you think?

Perhaps people who believe that they have expertise on the topic could come forward on this post, or perhaps more of a communal meg-thread would be more appropriate due to the lacking of such people.

Very fair point, I think I've noticed this too.

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Would it be worth overcoming depression before awakening? Practising shadow work in depth before awakening?

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What is an effective way to recover from a really large backslide, in relation to upholding habits?

Whilst doing self inquiry, often what happens is that energy rushes to Brumadhya, the third eye, which startles me as I am unsure whether this is safe for the body. A past experience I had whilst doing the practice, involved energy cultivating at this point, then what felt like happened was that the Chakra literally broke and energy poured out of this point, down into the body, all the way down to my ass. I found this to be quite a frightening experience. It seems that the mind attempts to force focus, I believe that I am "doing" the practice; something like this. I thought perhaps that I could just look at my hand as a substitute practice to the more formal "sitting" and self-inquiring style that I was doing before, as it seems there are many egoic lingering connotations that get involved. --------

Are there places to find information about life that people generally don't look towards, and would benefit greatly from doing so?

Is this the same as self inquiry? Thoughts begin to appear when going down the heart centre, and it becomes very peaceful, it doesn't feel like 'focus work'.

I get into overwhelmingly dramatic emotional states. I've been totally dishonest with myself that this happens, it happens quite regularly, I just thought that this was apart of spirituality and doing enlightenment work. Where is a good place to start in healing myself?

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Hello all, After doing shambhavi mahamudra kriya regularly after my initiation with Sadghuru 2 months ago, I've begun experiencing what feels like spinal fluid that has kind of leaked around brumadhya; the forehead feels dull and there is slight pain. My kundalini symptoms have become very intense, but it feels like the energy does not consecrate at brumadhya rather distictly, moreso surges at this point and around it. When I'm doing the practice it is clear that my mind and beliefs about the practice are in the way. The mind tries to do the practice needily. I accept this and just go on with the practices, doing them as precisely as possible and with surrender. I was wondering if this dullness will just clear itself. I am aware that the "problem" is a thought, but also aware that the eyes themselves and entire forehead feel like they are exhausted or asleep whilst the rest of the body is awake. Thoughts, mood and concentration are about as stable as a waving flag in a strong wind. I have also been struggling lately with lashout eating addiction, but have managed to avoid eating beyond the recommended time frame. I should also mention the neck is quite weak so often I lose control of it when observing brumadhya and it kind of falls back and spins around. Has anyone overcome this or experienced this? I noticed Leo has a book on his booklist that talks about kundalini and precautions to take. Would reiki therapy perhaps be of help? I live close to Melbourne in Australia if anyone has recommendations for institutions that could help - I have contacted an Isha volunteer to see whether I should postpone the practices. Any guidance or pointers to content would be greatly appreciated. Thankyou

I go between intentionally focusing and then letting trying to let that go

What are the prerequisites to pursuing enlightenment? Can such a generalisation be made? I feel like a lifestyle change that could be made could be developing health and well-being, and I believe I struggle to effectively maintain myself. Perhaps I should "begin the process all over again".